Word: insult
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governor of Pennsylvania almost from the start, and last week Democrat Richardson Dilworth told a Philadelphia audience why. "The five or six issues we have have become deadly dull," he said. "Newspaper readers want something spicy. As a result, for the want of something better to do, we insult each other." He promptly demonstrated how this is done. Cried he of Republican William Scranton: "I would like to separate him from his skinny behind . . . Do you want a man for Governor who spent his time in the State Department helping the cleaning woman?" Scranton's standard answer...
...N.F.L. touchdown record set 19 years ago by the Chicago Bears' Sid Luckman. Then, with the game on ice 49-34 late in the fourth quarter, Tittle passed up a chance to try for a record-breaking eighth touchdown instead chose to run out the clock: "Why add insult to injury? We've got to play these guys again, and in their own park next time." To Redskin Coach Bill McPeak the insult was already severe enough: "The way that old man cranked his arm-I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen...
Angrily, Communist Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti called Nenni's program a "serious and grave" threat "to isolate not the Communist Party, but the whole working class." As further proof of their injury, the Reds turned to petty insult, stopped calling Nenni "Comrade," a salutation they have used since World...
...time at all, Panamanians were deep in name-calling of their own. "An insult to Panamanian sovereignty," cried the Panamanian Students' Federation. When Thatcher himself and U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball turned up for the dedication, rioting Panamanian youths swarmed up the steel framework, waving Panamanian flags and shouting "Thatcher No, Americas Si!" Thatcher's name was ripped from the bridge plaque. The rest of the dedication ceremony, including a scheduled speech by Thatcher, was hurriedly canceled. Still, everyone agrees, it is nice to have the bridge, whatever its name...
...conversation, his letters were not so witty as his talk. Rather, the letters confirm Pearson's estimate of Wilde as a man utterly without meanness of spirit, the kindest and most gracious of egomaniacs. Constantly he is seen doing a kindness, praising another author, gracefully laughing off an insult. His own wit, unlike that of his artist friend Whistler, almost never dealt in insults (except when he was insulting Whistler; Wilde observed in one letter that Whistler's only really original artistic opinions were those in which he claimed superiority to other artists...